Significance Of Grey In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s in New York City. In the tragedy there are several colors that are symbolic towards the story. The main colors include grey, white, yellow, and green. Grey symbolizes sadness and the lack of confidence. White symbolizes innocent, purity, and a new beginning. Yellow is one of the main colors associated with Gatsby as it symbolizes money and power. Lastly, Green symbolizes growth and freshness. The many colors of The Great Gatsby symbolize all sorts of things but they all exemplify the characters in all sorts of ways and show The American Dream. The color grey in American society represents sadness. Grey is never seen as a “happy” color. In The Great Gatsby grey in symbolized sporadically throughout the tragedy. For example, Grey is seen all throughout the valley of ashes. In the valley of ashes everything is grey because of the dust …show more content…
The color gray represents sadness, which is seen in the valley of ashes, which is located in between West Egg and East Egg. George Wilson is a prime symbol of the color grey because he is poor and lives in the valley of ashes. White represents purity and as seen in weddings shows happiness occasionally. When Nick Caraway attends his first party at Gatsby’s he wears white because he pure and has never drank before. Yellow shows the gold-digging desire in Daisy while in the valley of ashes the spectacles of T.J. Eckleberg represent the desire for wealth and push for success and the 1920s. In the case of Gatsby green represents his American Dream of having Daisy. In other cases green could represent power with money or ivy on the Buchanan house that shows there rich. The tragedy, The Great Gatsby orbits around the concept of The American Dream and is influenced by the multitude of colors each having different